Shani Magosky is the founder of The Better Boss Project® and author of The Better Boss Blueprint. Shani works with executives and managers to implement best practices in business leadership. She serves as an executive coach for leading social media firms, financial giants, tech startups, entrepreneurs and non-profits.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“The toughest thing was selling; I started the business when the economy was still pretty shitty, at least in the states and that down economy persisted for the first few years and it did get a little discouraging. Clients and potential clients were willing to take meetings with me and hear my message and a lot of times the answer I got was our budgets for leadership development, training, talent management have been slashed a few years ago”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom Book by Don Miguel Ruiz
- Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting out of the Box Book by The Arbinger Institute
- The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict Book by The Arbinger Institute
Favourite Quote:
“If you think you can, or you think you can’t you’re right”
Recommended Online Resources:
Smart Brief – brings you the most important business news. The Smart Brief editors curate top stories from more than 10,000 credible sources summarize them for you.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Don’t do it all yourself, get support, and when I say support yes of course I mean administratively like we talked about earlier, outsourcing, delegating things that you can but also emotionally and spiritually, like have a pit crew, people who are in my closest network, we’re all there for each other, we call each other our pit crew and if we have a challenge or going through a hard time or trying to make a decision we’ll take it to our pit crew and it might be all of them at one time on a conference call or Skype or we might choose one of them individually because of a certain are of expertise but we are all there for each other so that the driver feels supported if you will in that analogy”…[Listen for More]
More About Shani Magosky:
Shani Magosky is the founder of The Better Boss Project® and author of The Better Boss Blueprint. Shani works with executives and managers to implement best practices in business leadership. She serves as an executive coach for leading social media firms, financial giants, tech startups, entrepreneurs and non-profits.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“The toughest thing was selling; I started the business when the economy was still pretty shitty, at least in the states and that down economy persisted for the first few years and it did get a little discouraging. Clients and potential clients were willing to take meetings with me and hear my message and a lot of times the answer I got was our budgets for leadership development, training, talent management have been slashed a few years ago”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom Book by Don Miguel Ruiz
Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting out of the Box book by The Arbinger Institute
The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict book by The Arbinger Institute
Favourite Quote:
“If you think you can, or you think you can’t you’re right”
Recommended Online Resources:
Smart Brief – brings you the most important business news. The Smart Brief editors curate top stories from more than 10,000 credible sources summarize them for you.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Don’t do it all yourself, get support, and when I say support yes of course I mean administratively like we talked about earlier, outsourcing, delegating things that you can but also emotionally and spiritually, like have a pit crew, people who are in my closest network, we’re all there for each other, we call each other our pit crew and if we have a challenge or going through a hard time or trying to make a decision we’ll take it to our pit crew and it might be all of them at one time on a conference call or Skype or we might choose one of them individually because of a certain are of expertise but we are all there for each other so that the driver feels supported if you will in that analogy”…[Listen for More]
More About Shani Magosky:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers.” Les Brown
Other Quotes From the Chat with Shani Magosky:
- “Eat the elephant one bite at a time; let me see what the elephant is, what are all the things that I’m feeling stressed and anxious about because they’re on the front burner, how do I prioritise them so I’m spending my time on the most important things once I’ve figured out what those are, ok what are the small steps that I need to take today and tomorrow and next week to set me on that path because otherwise you can kind of get frozen in that shit I don’t know where to even start”
- “What do we spend now? What’s the least that we can get away with spending? The worst-case scenario if I haven’t ramped up my business”om/
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers.” Les Brown
Other Quotes From the Chat with Shani Magosky:
- “Eat the elephant one bite at a time; let me see what the elephant is, what are all the things that I’m feeling stressed and anxious about because they’re on the front burner, how do I prioritise them so I’m spending my time on the most important things once I’ve figured out what those are, ok what are the small steps that I need to take today and tomorrow and next week to set me on that path because otherwise you can kind of get frozen in that shit I don’t know where to even start”
- “What do we spend now? What’s the least that we can get away with spending? The worst-case scenario if I haven’t ramped up my business”
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